What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.